Last edited by seana11 on 20 Oct 2012 08:42:34 am; edited 3 times in total

Many of our community members use IRC to communicate and talk about calcs. The SAX IRC client forwards messages to IRC from a browser. To take full advantage of the features of IRC (Such as other channels, and full control of your session), you must join the cemetech IRC channel. (irc://irc.efnet.net/#cemetech for those who know what they are doing).

To start out with IRC, you'll need an irc client. I use KVIrc, but you can use whatever client floats your boat; the procedure is roughly the same. Try several out to find one you like.

Wonderful tutorial; importantly, it's explained in the most application independent way. I hope to see more of our SAX dwelling users on IRC!

If I may suggest an IRC Application for OS X, I'd like to see Linkinus on that list. It's not actively updated anymore, sadly, but it's a wonderful client. Stays open as a background process even when the application is closed, themes based on HTML so it's easy to skin and so many advanced features, such as the ability to view multiple channels, queries or a combination thereof) in one window. It's expensive for a client but I haven't regretted it for over a year.

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I'm pretty sure Adium, the OS X equivalent of Pidgin, also supports IRC. Not the best client, but neither is Pidgin. They have the same backend though (libpurple), so you might as well include it on the list.

I'm pretty sure Adium, the OS X equivalent of Pidgin, also supports IRC. Not the best client, but neither is Pidgin. They have the same backend though (libpurple), so you might as well include it on the list.

Nice guide, you should maybe also mention about swearing not being allowed in #cemetech and that certain rules might be different in other channels (eg in #omnimaga you can swear, as long as your sentences don't look like this.)

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